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Lorentz Postcard
Words & Music by Brooke Lunderville, 2006.
This is my bitter relativistic space travel song! Well, John says it's bitter-sweet. I wrote it after reading 17 Ursula K. LeGuin books in a row - she does relativistic estrangement so well. I despair utterly of conveying the music/chords to you via computer. There's a pretty picked part that's easy to play on banjo and even on guitar in standard tuning and I would be happy to show you in person. But my MS-Paint skillZ aren't up to tablature.

PDF leadsheet for Lorentz Postcard.
MP3 recording of Lorentz Postcard.

You never were the patient kind
Well now you'll get to find out how it ends
Our little lives, our deaths, our fates
And never have to make amends

 	Well I can tell you I forgive you
	For the things that went before
	Beside this last betrayal 
	they all fade away

You never told me when you left
You had to creep out like a cat
You never saw me as I wept
But you were never one to think about that

	And of course you know I miss you
	But you must have guessed that, dear 
	And I'll miss you now forever
	At least that's how it looks from here

	Walking down the empty years
	While you sleep them off so slow and so remote

But I will fade away as well
Long before you reach that distant star
So let's say I forgave you this one too
Let's say I wish you well where you are
Let's say I wish you well where you are
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